Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Ku


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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 15:05, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Ben Ku

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Fails WP:NPOL: A run-of-the mill local politician. He's received the sort of standard local news coverage you'd expect for any minor politician, plus a bit more attention for being a Democrat and a gay man of Asian heritage. I don't believe that being one of five commissioners for one of Georgia's 159 counties is a significant political office. I am also nominating the article for one of Mr. Ku's business ventures:

Cheers, gnu 57 14:23, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete - for the reasons stated above. May His Shadow Fall Upon You ● 📧 19:17, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I have strong evidence that the author of this article has an undisclosed COI but I cannot share it. It was oversighted from my previous comment. So I will just state that I believe there is an undisclosed COI at play. May His Shadow Fall Upon You ● 📧 22:40, 20 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. County commission is not a level of political office that confers a free pass over NPOL #2 just because the person exists — the lowest level of office that always guarantees the right to a Wikipedia article is the state legislature, not county anything, while politicians at the county or municipal levels qualify for articles only if you can show a depth, volume and geographic range of coverage that marks them out as much more special than most other local politicians. But "first member of an underrepresented minority to do an otherwise non-notable thing" is also not a free ticket to being special, either: if he had been the first LGBTQ person of colour ever elected to political office in the entire United States, then we might be getting somewhere (but even then, his includability would still depend on being much more sourceable than this) — but if he's merely the first such person in his own county, while dozens or hundreds of others have already preceded him in other parts of the country, then that's not encyclopedically significant at all. And at any rate, this is written so much more like a public relations advertisement than like a neutral encyclopedia article that I'm utterly unsurprised by the COI suspicions. Bearcat (talk) 23:10, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:SNOW, WP:POLOUTCOMES. We'd create a terrible precedent just because we may think he's attractive and we like his politics. Bearian (talk) 17:59, 24 November 2019 (UTC)


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